Sick, Sad Gnome

How am I still sick? Someone please tell me how I am still sick with intermittent migraine and "rampaging gut horror". I have been eating healthy things, getting rest, taking painkillers, the whole nine yards, and yet somehow I am still sick. This is getting stupid. Doctor tomorrow if things are not improved.

Deathgnome has reached level 15, after several false starts (including the Digger Wasp, the beetle things and three high-level Yagudo in a camp who were good enough not to let me have time to cast any kind of spell whatsoever; that was embarrassing). And it turns out that Deathgnome has an awful lot of money that I didn't know about until last week. Not being au fait with how all of this stuff works, I hadn't realised that moneys earned from auctioning off items got stuck in the delivery box at your mog house. I got bored last week, though, and started playing with mog house functions, and whaddya know? There was something like 15,000 gil just sitting in my mog house's delivery box gathering dust. I haven't even come close to spending it all yet. Though I will admit to being really sorry that I didn't save back some of those earth crystals I auctioned off now that I have designs on upping my clothcrafting skill. Same with fire crystals and my cooking skill. Oh well; I can do just as well with wind crystals and lots of crayfish. Peeled crayfish may only be bait, but it ups your cookery craft skill all the same. 3600 points to go before level 16, when I can wear the protective earring I bought, and then probably 3800 more before level 17 and a brand spanking new spell. Then level 18 and subjobs. Huzzah.

I went and picked up Silent Hill on DVD on Saturday. I'm sort of resisting the temptation to stick it in the DVD player on repeat. We spent Saturday night watching that while discussing why it worked, why it didn't, what the critics thought and why they were talking out their arses for the most part, the fact that the DVD cover art sucks (it had to be about the monsters, right? Eesh) and the future in store for Jodelle Ferland (the little girl who played Sharon / Alessa - eleven years old and already had quite the career, and is in five movies, three on big-screen release, coming out next year). This is why I love rewatching favourites with my hoodoo.

Still, while all of this is nice, I think most of it's beyond me right now. Rampaging gut horror, you understand. Ugh. More, possibly touching on the five-year anniversary, when I am more up to it.

Six Degrees of Christian Slater

I love the Internet Movie Database. I was looking at the cast list for Pump Up the Volume (which ties with Heathers for my favourite Christian Slater anti-establishment movie ever) and found Seth Green and Juliet Landau. You can see it when thost two got back together on the Buffy set.

JULIET: Hey. Don't I know you?
SETH: Well, I've been in stuff...
JULIET: No, I mean, I've acted with you before.
SETH: X-Files?
JULIET: No.
SETH: Cybill? Drew Carey? Not Mr Belvedere.
JULIET: God, no! I seem to remember ... feature film.
SETH: (thinks) High School thing?
JULIET: Yeah! Filthy pirate radio! Happy Harry Hardon! That's how I got my start, you know.
SETH: Pump up the Volume, yeah. Cool movie. 'You want whale sperm with that?'
JULIET: Christian Slater faking masturbation. God, what a turn-on!
SETH: ...What?
JULIET: Too much information. Got it. So what are you in this?
SETH: Bass player werewolf. You?
JULIET: Insane seer vampire. Sired by Angel, sired Spike...
SETH: Dude. Incestuous.
JULIET: Mmm-hmm. But the threesome action could be awesome ... if Whedon wasn't such a spoilsport.
SETH: You're disturbed.
JULIET: I'm in acting. I kind of have to be.
SETH: Word.

Or something. It's a bit like reading the cast list for Silent Hill and finding out that half the main cast has been in The Outer Limits. You can see them getting together around the coffee pot, going, "Here we go again, with the weird." Not that that lot have probably been on the same sound stage, but maybe they noticed each other at auditions. It just amuses me how the Six Degrees theory works with actors.

(Oh, I also theorise that the character of Jane Lane in Daria is at least in part inspired by Samantha Mathis' character Nora in this movie. Black hair, bright red lipstick, mad artist with a thing for the sarcastic iconoclast type in her friendships... You make the call.)

I need to give my brain something to do through the being sick, I suppose. Whee. Hey, here's a challenge for you - go through your favourite late 80s / early 90s movies on IMDB, particularly if you're the kind of person who watches stuff and goes, "I know that person from somewhere". Find out where they came from. You never know what surprises you'll turn up.